Side by Side
Two new stores for giftable socks and watches.
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Stance
510 Broadway
Buy: Some 500 socks, from pineapple prints to cushioning and sweat-wicking styles ($18).
Personalize: Choose from 12 patterns and 20 colors, plus monograms, done in 20 minutes in a downstairs room visible through the glass floor ($28).
Name-drop: Numerous styles co-designed by celebrities include one featuring basketball player James Harden’s face.
Nixon
122 Prince St.
Buy: 72 watch styles including the Ultratide surfing smartwatch that detects tide and water temperature ($300).
Personalize: Choose from 16 faces, 20 leather and steel bands, and laser engraving, made right behind the counter within 45 minutes (from $125).
Name-drop: Keith Richards donated a leather jacket to be reappropriated as watchbands.
2x2: Festive Booze Buckets
For the host who wants to look serious.
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Silver:
For ice: Carmen pineapple ice bucket, $70 at CB2
(451 Broadway).
For champagne: Margiela Champagne bucket, $425
at mrporter.com.
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Bronze:
For ice: Tom Dixon plum
ice bucket, $290 at shophorne.com.
For champagne: Bottega del Rame
grape-shaped bucket, $192
at amazon.com.
Micromarket
New York tribes reveal what’s at the top of their list.
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Chorus Kids
�Dress pants that actually fit me, because they make me feel professional onstage.� �Leo Hartley, 10, Brooklyn Youth Chorus ($88 at Brooks Brothers, 901 E. 20th St.)
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Sound Bathers
�We’re all into kyanite, which is this really pretty blue crystal that opens channels of spirituality and has balancing properties.� �Erica Dunn, sound-bathing regular (From $14 at Maha Rose, 97 Green St., Greenpoint.)
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Gardening-Club Ladies
�During the dead of winter, I’d most like an exquisite dahlia arrangement in an antique container from Vladimir Kanevsky.�
�Nancy Sipp, Garden Club of Lawrence ($8,000 at thevladimircollection.com.)
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Golf-Club Guys
�Everyone wants the M1 from Taylor Made. It’s got new technology � basically, it moves weight around in the head,
to change the spin rate and optimize the launch angle.� �Brad Worthington, director at Trump Golf Links ($500 at taylormadegolf.com.)
Cheap Store, Nice Gift
The most-expensive-looking selections from
the city’s more reasonably priced shops.
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Flying Tiger: Polka-dot quilt ($15; 920 Broadway).
Lot-Less: Men’s plaid pajamas ($20; 97 Chambers St).
Kikkerland: Brown-cow bath mat ($15; 493 Sixth Ave.).
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& Other Stories: Cutout two-tone leather gloves ($65; 505 Fifth Ave.).
Muji: Wool shawl with armholes ($70; 475 Fifth Ave.).
Sunrise Mart: Japanese soap made of moisturizing milk fat ($3; 494 Broome St.).
Ask a Shop Clerk
Nate Borne is the U.S. manager of
Snow Peak, a Japanese outdoors brand that just opened in Soho (59 Crosby St.).
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How is camping different
in Japan?
�In America, people usually camp because they’re doing another outdoor activity like canoeing, so we’ll spend $1,000 on the canoe, but the tent is $150 from Walmart. In Japan, camping is the activity. They don’t actually do anything but cook and hang out, so they’ll spend all their money on gear � like our titanium sake bottle ($180) and cups ($35) � which has to look elegant while also being smart enough to pack small and fit in Tokyo’s limited spaces and small cars. We have a bamboo table (from $330) that folds in half and will slide underneath your futon in a single action, which actually does really well in New York apartments too.�
Last-Minute Gifts
Twenty-four-hour stores and craft-beer delivery for when it’s 7 p.m. and the Secret Santa swap is tomorrow morning.
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From $10
A farm-fresh basket
filled with berries, grapes, and
melon from Sunset Park’s Rossman Farms, open 24/7 (770 Third Ave.).
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$55
A bouquet of silver brunia, succulents, or mums wrapped in chartreuse burlap, delivered in an hour via bike messenger (urbanstems.com).
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From $260
A selection of domestic craft beers like Smuttynose
Robust Porter; bottles can also
arrive staggered throughout the year (drizly.com).
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$520
A pair of Sideshow Collectible Hot Toys of Chewbacca and Han Solo from Neergaard Pharmacies,
open 24/7 (454 Fifth Ave.).
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$1,800
A Weber stainless-
steel natural-gas grill
from Nuthouse
Hardware, open 24/7
(202 E. 29th St.).